Newsmakers

Nabil Nasr, director of the Golisano Institute for Sustainability, gave a presentation, “Remanufacturing Strategies in a Closed Loop Product System,” at the seventh annual Workshop on Closed-Loop Supply Chains, organized by Aristotle University of Thessaloniki and the Institut Européen d’Administration des Affaires, in September, in Athens, Greece.

Fernando Naveda, chair of software engineering, has been appointed by the Computer Society to serve in CSAB’s board of directors for a three-year term. The organization is the lead society within ABET for accreditation of programs in computer science, software engineering, information technology and information systems.

Robert Parmelee, systems administrator in the Golisano College of Computing and Information Sciences, won a Partners In Quality Award from East House for his responsiveness and high level of teamwork with the East House staff and clients. East House is a non-profit agency that provides residential, rehabilitation, educational and career services to adults battling with mental illness or chemical dependency.

Stanislaw Radziszowski, professor of computer science, presented at the Southeastern International Conference on Combinatorics, Graph Theory and Computing held this past spring at Florida Atlantic University. The presentation was based on research conducted in collaboration with computer science graduate student David Rivshin.

Raghuveer Rao, professor of electrical engineering and imaging science, organized and co-chaired the Second IEEE Workshop on Computational Advances in Multi-Sensor Adaptive Processing, sponsored by IEEE Signal Processing Society, Dec. 11-14 in St. Thomas, U.S. Virgin Islands. Sohail Dianat, professor of electrical engineering and imaging science, was finance and registration chair for the same workshop, which was also supported by the Office of Naval Research.